The Council of Conservative Citizens is a reincarnation of the White Citizens Councils that sprang up in the South in the 1950s and 1960s to oppose school desegregation. Like the League of the South, a neo-confederate group to which it has many links, the 15,000-member Council has tried without success to mask its white supremacist ideology to better promote a right-wing political agenda.The link to the Council of Conservative Citizens is www.cofcc.org.

The official publication of the Council of Conservative Citizens is the Citizens Informer.

excerpts from the

Citizens Informer 1999 to 2003

Mississippi related items/individuals
Note that all are white
almost all are males
almost all are Republicans

pp. 15 Caroll County Mississippi CofCC at Confederate Memorial day ceremonies with the UDC and SCV. Greater Jackson Mississippi has City Councilman Ben Allen speaker to them. In general Mississippi CofCC is starting a Mississippi State flag campaign.

Comments

Glad to see some more sunlight on this issue. I have my own list, and just found yours - haven't had time to compare, but will very soon, to see if you have any that I have missed.

I'm trying to draw attention to this in Mississippi and get these politicians to stop legitimizing the CofCC by their presense, membership or anything else they have to do with the CofCC that will contribute to the status of the CofCC. They need to be identified as a radical fringe group, and not encouraged by recognition from those in power.

Thanks for your good work here. I don't have a blog, but I do have a Mississipi headlines page with editorial and permanent links to articles on this subject. Check out my home page, and particularly these pages: